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Comment Re:Against Their Own Recommendation (Score 1) 36

If I have to babysit the AI tool or put my own warnings on the output, that seems counterproductive. Furthermore, it can make you look incompetent.

"I didn't look too close at it, because I don't have time, so I used Copilot. The summary looks OK, but I can vouch for it 100%."
Not what anyone above you is going to accept as an answer for information you present them for decision making, legal responsibility or other.

Comment Against Their Own Recommendation (Score 4, Insightful) 36

Wasn't it just a few weeks back Microsoft said don't use Copilot in Excel for any thing you may be legally responsible for?

If that's the case, why do business/enterprises seem so hot to adopt Copilot as their AI?

If I can't use Copilot to manipulate or whatever the data in an Office app, for which the output may be used/fed into some other Office document that M$ recommends I don't use AI for, then where is its real value and use case for Copilot?

Corporate training? Not if any of it is legally required.
PR communications? Not if you ever suspect it to show up in court.
Summarizing financial statements? Not if you have to provide that information to anyone who can read them without help from AI.

How much do I need to spend on AI for reminders and a to do list? I thought they figured that our with Outlook about 20 years ago.

Comment Re:Late Stage Capitalism (Score 2) 55

Late stage capitalism is thrown about when it looks like various business have run out of ideas to extract wealth from society and chose to reduce human capital, lower wages, pursue rent seeking behavior, and/or overtly buy government favor. They want to be Rent-A-Center, but not just for TVs and junk furniture, but for your whole life. If regular people don't have decent jobs, where is all that sweet, sweet rent money going to come from?

Yes, small business in the US is still incredibly important to overall economic health. We do see a small number of very large players; be it tech, auto, real estate, finance, media etc.; that are actively working to consolidate power through acquisitions (organic and inorganic) or the ability to create perpetual rent seeking/subscriptions and remove ownership from vast swaths of society. By reducing market players, the large players no longer need to respond to market competition and innovate; they look for safer alternatives to increase profit and/or revenue, like reducing human capital or removing ownership. Removing ownership means the renter can no longer participate in traditional markets that provide equity/gains on investment like real estate and public stocks.

Comment Late Stage Capitalism (Score 2) 55

The fear about AI in the US is probably that the work AI is assisting with or replacing is not then followed by another industry for effected/replaced humans to step or grow into. Late stage capitalism is simply trying to figure out how not pay Europeans and North Americans middle class wages with this new form of automation. Without the middle class, who is going to buy all the things business are selling? 100,000 wealthy families don't need 200,000,000 shiny new iPhones, 3,000,000 automobiles, or 100,000 flights per day.

Coach and whip makers were replaced by the automobile industry which employs millions of workers through it's massive and complex supply chain. No one was trying to make coaches and whips without humans to increase profit, it was subsumed by an entire other industry.

Weavers were replaced by automated weaving looms that made textiles incredibly affordable to most people spurring growth in upholstery/furniture and clothing. While the goal was to make textiles faster and consequently with fewer humans, it was a permanent boon to business that already used textiles, increasing economic opportunities for average people by providing less expensive goods and lowered the barrier to entry for textile based businesses.

Comment Re:Meanwhile... (Score 5, Insightful) 57

It's real. Texas has banned it. A state run by so-called "pro-life" "Christians" who espouse "small and limited government" have, once again, overturned a life saving measures enacted by local city governments.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fthehill.com%2Fopinion%2Fhe...

Comment Re:The replacement system sucks. (Score 1) 46

Amazon mission statement: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.aboutamazon.com%2Fab...

"Earth’s most customer-centric company"

I guess than can be interpreted as "customers are the center of how we maximize wealth extraction". I can think that way too, but I mostly like humans over obscene profits and business individuals who can suspend their personal values in the name of the almighty dollar because it's legal and "doesn't represent who they are as a person".

I work for a small-ish publicly traded company and our CEO's annual compensation can buy my just below median value home every 6 weeks and the company made across the board layoffs this year. I complain about that too and openly discuss compensation at work hoping it gets around. It's likely a career limiting move.

Comment Re:The world operates on the perception of reality (Score 1) 211

Yea, verily, thou art not paid for thy methods but for thy results.

This negates most of what I think you are arguing. If it's results based, effort does not matter. If my employer is paying for a result, and I produce in a day what they expect takes a week, then we're square. What I do with the remaining 4 days shouldn't matter.

You can argue there is a misalignment in the result to effort ratio, but that's entirely different.

Comment Re:The replacement system sucks. (Score 1) 46

This is why we can't have nice things, people often defend unethical, anti-consumer behavior for reasons I don't understand. Maybe they will one day be the billionaire class after they simply make all the correct decisions in their life and need to continue such behavior? So no need for consumer protections, like what defines a family, so a company can rake you over the coals; just make better choices. Don't worry, the existing billionaires can't wait to greet you!

Overly, narrowly defining a family as a means to increase revenue is despicable.

Comment Welcome to America... (Score 4, Insightful) 211

It was fun while it lasted!

Corporate America has found a way to undo 130 years of progress! From the end of the robber baron era in the late 1800s to probably 10 years ago, it was hard to stop workers from believing hard work would produce desired advancement and often did. The business class/corporate America has been fighting their entire existence against anything that requires safe, living wage jobs.

Exporting labor that could not be automated away to foreign countries with lower standards of living and cost has been the game plan for 50 years. More recently, it's been hitting middle-class, white collared jobs.

How many C-suite jobs get off-shored or out sourced to India, China, Brazil etc.?

Who is going to have all the disposable income to buy all the stuff that feeds the fat cats' wallets?

Comment Re:The replacement system sucks. (Score 1) 46

I suspect the payment information sharing is a way to discourage actually sharing your account.

Also, you can disable payment sharing, but then other members lose access to all benefits and digital content. So, I guess, see my first statement.

Also, what about your college kid in a dorm? By most state laws, out-of-state students do not qualify for local residency if they live on campus. I feel completely entitled to list them as a family member on Amazon Prime. But to the OP's comment, I don't want them to have access to all payment info.

FYI, we canceled our Prime membership some months ago for a number of reasons, but they keep offering 30 trials every so often. With a little discipline, you can add enough to your cart over a few days or weeks to get free shipping anyway.

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